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23. Roy F. Basler and Christian O. Basler, eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln: Second Supplement, 1848–1865 (New Brunswick, N.J., 1990), 9–11; CW, 2: 304–6; Fehrenbacher, Prelude, 38.
24. George T. Allen to Lyman Trumbull, January 19, 1856, LTP; Frederick Douglass’ Paper, March 2, 1855. At this point, Lincoln’s name had almost never appeared in eastern abolitionist newspapers (at least, those now searchable online).
25. Gienapp, Origins, 189–237, 286; CW, 2: 316–17; Lyman Trumbull to Owen Lovejoy, August 20, 1855, Dr. William Jayne Papers, ALPLM; Silas Ramsey to Trumbull, March 7, 1856, LTP.
26. CW, 2: 322–23.
27. CW, 1: 337–38; N. Levering, “Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Iowa Historical Record, 12 (July 1896), 495–96.
28. Gienapp, Origins, 239–40; Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 1: 411–12; Paul Selby, “The Editorial Convention of 1856,” JISHS, 5 (July 1912), 343–46; George Schneider, “Lincoln and the Anti-Know-Nothing Resolutions,” Transactions of the McLean County Historical Society, 3 (1900), 88–90; Chicago Daily Tribune, February 25, 1856.
29. Chicago Press and Tribune, April 8, 1859; Stephen L. Hansen, The Making of the Third Party System: Voters and Parties in Illinois, 1850–1876 (Ann Arbor, 1980), 78.
30. Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 1: 417; Maurice Baxter, Orville H. Browning: Lincoln’s Friend and Critic (Bloomington, Ind., 1957), 86; “Official Record of Convention,” Transactions of the McLean County Historical Society, 3 (1900), 148–64; Chicago Democratic Press, May 31, 1856. Burlingame suggests that the failure to report Lincoln’s speech may have been deliberate, as he spoke from notes and his remarks were not fully worked out. Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 1: 420.
31. Joseph Medill to Lincoln, August 9, 1860, ALP; Magdol, Owen Lovejoy, 147; John S. Wright, Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery (Reno, 1970), 100.
32. Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions (Minneapolis, 1893), 7–20; Salmon P. Chase to George W. Julian, July 17, 1856, Giddings-Julian Papers, LC; Philip S. Foner, ed., The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass (5 vols.; New York, 1950–75), 2: 392; George W. Julian, The Life of Joshua R. Giddings (Chicago, 1892), 335; George W. Julian, Speeches on Political Questions (New York, 1872), 146.
33. CW, 2: 342; Nathaniel G. Wilcox to Lincoln, June 6, 1864, ALP; Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions, 61–64.
34. Richard Yates to Lyman Trumbull, August 3, 1856, LTP.
35. CW, 2: 347–50, 358, 365, 367, 379, 413.
36. Hansen, Making of the Third Party System, 83–85; CG, 35th Congress, 1st Session, 1346; William C. Harris, Lincoln’s Rise to the Presidency (Lawrence, Kans., 2007), 80; Thomas J. McCormack, ed., Memoirs of Gustave Koerner 1809–1896 (2 vols.; Cedar Rapids, 1909), 2: 22.
37. Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (New York, 2005), 720; Gienapp, Origins, 416.
38. John Mack Faragher, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (New Haven, 1986), 177–80, 221; Arthur C. Cole, The Era of the Civil War, 1848–1870 (Springfield, Ill., 1919), 27, 75; Andrew R. L. Cayton and Peter S. Onuf, The Midwest and the Nation (Bloomington, Ind., 1990), 37–38; David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder, eds., Essays in Nineteenth Century Economic History: The Old Northwest (Athens, Ohio, 1975), 25–28; CW, 2: 415. The jury proved unable to agree on a verdict and the case was not retried, so Lincoln’s client did not have to pay damages.
39. Fehrenbacher, Prelude, 5–8; Olivier Frayssé, Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809–60, trans. Sylvia Neely (Urbana, Ill., 1994), 137; New York Evening Post, September 22, 1858.
40. Foner, Free Soil, 103–48; CG, 30th Congress, 1st Session, appendix, 518–19; 34th Congress, 3rd Session, 11.
41. Foner, Free Soil, 186–225.
42. Elizabeth B. Clark, “‘The Sacred